[alsa-devel] Acer Ferrari 5000

[Russ Dill]

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 18:07 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:40:46 -0700,
> Russ Dill wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> > > At Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:27:24 -0700,
> > > Russ Dill wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I'm testing with the acer-aspire quirk set, and things seem to be
> > >> working rather well. The headphone plug/unplug detection and speaker
> > >> muting actually work :) However, I'm still not getting HDMI audio
> > >> working. I'm not that familiar with IEC958, how should I have the
> > >> switches set? I currently have both IEC958 and IEC958 Default PCM on.
> > >> I've tried with mplayer -ao alsa:device=iec958 <mp3 file>
> > >
> > > Basically it should be OK.  I guess it's rather an issue of the video
> > > driver side.  If the video driver doesn't support HDMI audio output,
> > > it doesn't work, of course.
> > >
> > 
> > [ Working on testing patch... ]
> > 
> > The audio does work over HDMI though, Vista has better support for
> > connecting to HDTV and getting the video modes right, so I was
> > watching a DVD. Out of curiosity, I checked a box in the audio
> > configuration for digital output, and sound started coming out of the
> > TV.
> 
> Do you mean it working on Linux?  When "IEC958 Default PCM" is set
> to on, the analog PCM outputs are also routed to the digital output
> automatically.  So you should be hearing the sound played via aplay.

No such luck. Enabling it and playing audio (that comes out on the
speakers) does not cause an audio signal to be sent on the HDMI cable.

> The "iec958" PCM device is for the exclusive digital output, mainly
> for the raw digital stream like AC3.  If it's being used with the
> analog streams at the same time, you won't be able to open it.

On the Vista side, it refers to the digital output both as S/PDIF
digital output and "Real Panel Optical Jack". It is definitely part of
the realtek high def audio driver. The realtek config app gives a choice
for default audio output; speakers or digital.

> BTW, I found why model=auto doesn't work well on your machine.
> It's because (again) of BIOS.  It doesn't set the codec SSID properly
> so the driver doesn't accept the HP auto-toggle and other features.
> 
> So, in your case, using model=acer-aspire would be likely the best
> choice (supposing it matches with most functionality).  If you have no
> problem (at least regressions) with this model, I'll add the entry to
> point to model=acer-aspire

Add Acer Ferrar 5000 Quirk to Intel HDA driver

---
 sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c b/sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c
index bf7e64e..88b674e 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c
@@ -8655,6 +8655,7 @@ static struct snd_pci_quirk alc883_cfg_tbl[] = {
 	SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1025, 0x0110, "Acer Aspire", ALC883_ACER_ASPIRE),
 	SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1025, 0x0112, "Acer Aspire 9303", ALC883_ACER_ASPIRE),
 	SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1025, 0x0121, "Acer Aspire 5920G", ALC883_ACER_ASPIRE),
+	SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1025, 0x010a, "Acer Ferrari 5000", ALC883_ACER_ASPIRE),
 	SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1025, 0x013e, "Acer Aspire 4930G",
 		ALC888_ACER_ASPIRE_4930G),
 	SND_PCI_QUIRK(0x1025, 0x013f, "Acer Aspire 5930G",
-- 
1.6.0.4



> Anyway, my previous test patch is independent from the model problem.
> It's still helpful to know whether it can solve the codec
> communication errors with model=auto.

[  715.680015] hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode: last cmd=0x106f000a
[  716.684012] hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout (ERROR): last cmd=0x106f000a
[  717.688024] hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout (ERROR): last cmd=0x106f000a
[  718.708012] hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout (ERROR): last cmd=0x106f000a
[  719.712011] hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout (ERROR): last cmd=0x106f000a
[  738.813550] hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #0. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> Takashi